https://github.com/rjl20/hpmor
Maintainer: Reuben Thomas [email protected]

A LaTeX version of the popular didactic fan-fiction by Eliezer Yudkowsky, which can make a PDF ebook (one file) or printable books (either one or six volumes; the latter option is more practical to bind). There are also dust jackets for the printable volumes.

TeXLive 2015 or later is required to build the book.

Note: the Omake Files chapters (11 and 64) have been moved to the end of the single-file PDF. Those chapter numbers are omitted in the text, so chapter 10 is followed by chapter 12, for example. Similarly, the chapter disclaimers and epigraphs are removed to an appendix. In the six-volume PDFs, all chapters are renumbered to start from 1 at the start of a book, and there are no appendices.

• hpmor.tex - the main file
• hp-format.tex - mostly sets up memoir
• hp-hacks.tex - formatting commands used in the text
• chapters/ - one file per chapter, included from hpmor.tex and the individual volumes hpmor-N.tex.
• fonts/ - various fonts used
• latexmkrc - configures latexmk to run LaTeX to build the PDFs.
• GNUMakefile - contains targets to make a Zip of the PDFs and release them to GitHub. (Mostly of interest to project maintainers.) make all does the same as latexmk (see below), which may be useful for editor integration (e.g. Emacs).

• latexmk: Build all PDFs. (If in doubt, just run this command and do something else for twenty minutes!)
• make all: Build a Zip of the PDFs.
• latexmk hpmor: Build the one-volume PDF hpmor.pdf
• latexmk hpmor-N: Build one of the six individual volumes hpmor-1.pdf to hpmor-6.pdf.
• latexmk hpmor-dust-jacket-N: produce the dust jacket for Volume N, hpmor-dust-jacket-N.pdf. Note that this requires the corresponding volume, hpmor-N.pdf, to have been built first.
• latexmk -c: Remove files produced by building (except PDFs).
• latexmk -C: Remove files produced by building (including PDFs).

By default, the dust jackets assume 80gsm plain paper (this affects the thickness of the book and hence the size of the dust jacket). This can be configured in hp-paper-type.tex; see papers.tex for a list of papers.

The exact sizes of dust jackets may vary; the current parameters were taken from a commercial printer. They can be adjusted in hp-dust-jacket.tex as desired.

Note that the back dust-flap is left for you to add your own text; edit hp-dust-jacket.tex and search for “PUT YOUR BACK DUST-FLAP TEXT HERE!”. Make sure you remove the percent sign % at the start of the line, or your text will not be printed. (This is a safety feature to make sure that if you don’t change the text, the placeholder will not appear; instead, you’ll just get a blank back flap.)

When producing a book with a dust jacket, you may well not want the front cover as well. To suppress the front cover, use the following incantation:

latexmk -norc -e '$options="nocover"' -r latexmkrc -g hpmor-1

Of course, you can replace hpmor-1 with any other volume, or leave it out to generate all PDFs with no cover.

Contributions are most welcome. These fall into three main categories:

1. Textual corrections (where the text differs from the online original unintentionally).
2. Textual improvements: fixing straight-up errors in the English (or deeper, the sense, story etc.), or “Britfixing”, i.e. replacing non-British usages.
3. Design and typography. Improvements to both the PDF and print versions of the books are encouraged. Search the sources for “FIXME” to find known issues.

For textual changes other than simple typo or language fixes, please familiarise yourself with the style guide (below).

The preferred way to submit any improvement is as a GitHub pull request. Textual corrections can also be submitted as issues in the issue tracker, or by email to the maintainer.

For the GitHub URL, and email address of the maintainer, see above.

Chapters that aren’t part of a continuing series look like this:

\chapter{The Fundamental Attribution Error}

Chapters that are part of a continuing series look like one of these:

\partchapter{Working in Groups}{I}

\namedpartchapter{Self-Actualization}{SA}{VIII}{The Sacred and the Mundane}

The first is pretty simple; it’s just the title of the chapter followed by which part it is.

The second looks like the title of the chapter, then the abbreviation for the title of the chapter, then the part, then the title of the part.

Normally, a chapter starts like this:

\lettrine{P}{adma} Patil had finished

That creates the large initial letter.

If the first paragraph of the chapter is all italics, though, it looks like this:

\begin{em}\lettrine{T}{he} red jet of fire took Hannah full in the
[...]
blazing green spirals brought down their foe’s Shield Charm.\par\end{em}

\section{Final Aftermath:}

These have been removed to an appendix, hp-epigraphs.tex.

There are some other things relating to newspaper headlines and such; check the chapters they appear in for the appropriate markup.

These are macros defined in hp-hacks.tex.

\begin{writtenNote}
\letterAddress{Dear Me,}

Please play the game. You can only play the game once in a
lifetime. This is an irreplaceable opportunity.

Recognition code 927, I am a potato.

\letterClosing[Yours,]{You.}
\end{writtenNote}

\shout{Foo}: small caps
\scream{Foo}: uppercase
\abbrev{FOO}: lowercased, small caps \headline{Foo Bar Baz}: centred small caps
\inlineheadline{Foo Bar Baz}: small caps
\prophecy{foo}: an alias for \shout{}